FC Büsingen is a German association football club

Football in Germany

Association football is the most popular sport in Germany. The German Football Association is the sport's national governing body, with 6.6 million members organized in over 26,000 football clubs. There is a league system, with the 1. and 2. Bundesliga on top, and the winner of the first...

 based in the exclave of Büsingen

Büsingen

Büsingen am Hochrhein is a German town entirely surrounded by the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen and, south across the Rhine, by the cantons of Zürich and Thurgau. It has a population of about 1,450 inhabitants...

 that competes in the Swiss league system, being the only German club to do so. The club was founded in 1924 and has currently, as of 2008, about 215 members.

History

The club was formed in 1924 and dissolved in 1937, when the Nazis forced the members to join the local gymnastics club, the TV Büsingen. Until 1927, the club's football field included a nut

Nut (fruit)

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 tree in the penalty area

Penalty area

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 but due to this not being compliant with the rules of the game, it had to be cut down on 30 April 1927.

The FCB was reformed on 26 April 1947 and this time joined the Swiss Football Association

Swiss Football Association

The Swiss Football Association is the governing body of football in Switzerland. It organizes the football league, the Swiss Football League, and the Switzerland national football team. It is based in Bern....

 instead. It carries the (German: Vereinsnummer) club number 11902 in Switzerland.

The clubs greatest success came in 1973, when it earned promotion to the Swiss 2nd Liga, the fourth tier of the league system. The FCB could not hold this league for long, finishing last in its one and only season, and has since returned to the lower levels of Swiss league football, fluctuating between 3rd and 5th Liga, the latter being the lowest tier of the league system.

The FCB plays in the Zürich

Zürich

Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

 region of the Swiss league system.

The clubs song, the Fussballerlied FC Büsingen, describes the geographical situation of the club quite well, with its close proximity to the river Rhine. It proclaims, that the club will never "go under", even when its playing field is flooded, in reference to the yearly spring floods the river carries down from the Swiss Alps

Swiss Alps

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.

Recent seasons

Season	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	4th Liga, Gruppe 12	VI	8th
2000–01	4th Liga, Gruppe 12		9th
2001–02	4th Liga, Gruppe 12		11th ↓
2002–03	did not compete
2003–04	5th Liga – Gruppe 1	VII	5th
2004–05	5th Liga – Gruppe 1		1st ↑
2005–06	4th Liga, Gruppe 12	VI	10th
2006–07	4th Liga, Gruppe 12		5th
2007–08	4th Liga, Gruppe 12		7th
2008–09	4th Liga, Gruppe 12		5th
2009–10	4th Liga, Gruppe 12		5th
2010–11	4th Liga, Gruppe 12		4th
2011–12	4th Liga, Gruppe 12

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External links

• Official Web Site
• FC Büsingen page on the Swiss FA website
• FC Büsingen forum
• Wenn jeder Match zum Länderspiel wird Article on the FC Büsingen